Shoe-holder.



H. v; 1). WALDRON.

SHOE HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED IEB.3,1904.

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PATENTED SEPT. 17', 1907.

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No. 866,542. PATENTED SEPT. 17, 1907.

' H. V. D. WALDRON.

SHOE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED PEB- 3, 1904.

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WITNESSES:

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ATTORNEYS.

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i HOWARD V. D. WALDRON, OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EMMIT G. LATIA, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

SHOE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1'7, 1907.

Application filed February 3, 1904. erial No. 191,885.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, HOWARD V. D. WALDnoN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in New Brunswick, county of Middlesex, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of devices designed to hold a shoe while being cleaned or polished and, as usual in such devices, it comprises a support or bracket adapted to be mounted on the wall and project laterally at a convenient height.

The invention consists in an organization whereby the holder and the shoe carried by it may be reversed to present the rear or any part of the shoe in convenient position; and, also, an organization in which the movable heel piece that serves to stretch or hold the shoe on the tree or toe piece is caused to move rearwardly by pressure exerted on the front part or vamp portion of the shoe.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a plan view: Fig. 2, a side elevation: Fig. 3, a section on the line 3, 3, of Fig. 2: Fig. l, a side elevation showing the position of the device reversed so as to present the back or heel portion of shoe upwardly: and Figs. 5, 6 and 7 are detail views showing a modified construction.

a is the usual plate adapted to be secured on the walls and having in it a tapered dove-tailed groove in which is removably seated-the correspondingly shaped head of a laterally projecting arm I). The outer face of this arm inclines from the upper edge inwardly at an angle of forty-five degrees or thereabout to a vertical line and has an aperture through which passes a pivot pin 0 extending from the correspondingly inclined face of an enlarged head d, preferably circular, on a horizontally extending part or arm a. A nut or collar f may be applied to the projecting end of this pivot and secured by a pin g. These parts may all be castings and of very cheap construction.

h is the tree or toe piece and i the heel piece on which the shoe is held. The normal position is indicated in Fig. 2 from which it will be seen that the rear or heel portion of the shoe is more or less inaccessible because of its proximity to the wall or surface by which the device is supported. By rotating the part c, d, through a hall revolution, as indicated in Fig. 4, the heel supporting portion 1, is brought uppermost. The arm 6, (Z, is maintained in its normal position by a latch j pivoted on the part b and engaging anotch in the part d. In the position indicated in Fig. 4, the parts are similarly locked in position by this latch j being brought into engagement with another notch or groove in the part (Z: and obviously the shoe may be held in the same manner in any desired position.

In the construction shown in Figs. 5, 6 and 7 instead of a pivot joint, such as described, an ordinary hinge is employed connecting the parts I) and (1. This hinge is formed as shown by interlocking lugs cast respectively on the two parts 0, b, and having apertures through which pass a tapered hinge pin 7c. As seen in these figures, the part b extends in front of the hinge point and on a projection m extending downwardly therefrom is pivoted a latch 02. In normal position, this latch is thrown upwardly and loc {S the part c. When the latch is released, the part 0 may be i'olded downwardly, as seen in Fig. '7, being then also held in that position by the latch n. The heel portion of the shoe will now be uppermost in the same general position as indicated in Fig. l.

Pivoted at 0 on the part c is a lever p carrying at its lower end the heel piece '6 and extended at its upper end to form a handle g by which the heel piece may be moved forwardly or rearwardly as desired. The extent of the movement is limited by a lug on the part 0 projecting into a slot r in the lever 19 which is enlarged adjacent its pivot and the rear face of which is concentric with the axis of the pivot and is provided with ratchet teeth engaged by a dog or pawl s. In front of the lever p, the arm or part 6 extends downwardly as at tand has pivoted to its lower end at u, a downwardly curved 8O arm '0 that carries the usual toe piece or tree. Pivoted to this arm, at or adjacent the rear end of the tree or toe piece his a curved link w, the upper end of which is pivoted to the lever p in front of its pivot 0. The re sult of this organization is that pressure on the tree tends to carry downwardly the arm 1) on which it is mounted, and hence draws downwardly also the curved link 10, which, acting on the lever 10, throws the heel piece 1' rearwardly.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a shoe-holding device of the general character de scribed, the combination of a laterally extending supporting;' arm, a lever pivoted thereon carrying the heel-piece, an arm carrying the toepiece and also pivoted on the supporting arm, and means connecting said lever and toepiece arm for moving the heel-piece carrying leverrearwardly when the toe-piece carrying arm is depressed.

2. In a shoe-holding device of the character described, the combination of a laterally extending supporting arm, a lever pivoted thereon carrying the heel-piece, an arm carrying the toepiece and also pivoted on the supporting arm, and a link connecting the lever and toepiece arm for moving the heeLpiece rearwardly when the toe-piece is depressed.

3. In a shoe-holding device of the general character described, the combination of a laterally projecting supporting arm downwardly extended at its front end, a lever pivoted thereto and carrying the heelpiece, an arm extending from the supporting arm and carrying the toe-piece, and a link extending from the tocpiece to the lever carrying the heelpiece, for the purpose specified.

4. In a shoe holding device of the general character de scribed, the combination of a horizontally-projecting supporting part composed of an inner and an outer member united by an angularly disposed inclined joint, a heelpiece, and a toe-piece,iboth carried by the outer member, the arrangement being" such that said outer member may he moved to carry the heel-piece of the device outwardly and upwardly for the purpose specified and a locking device for holding said outer member in position.

5. The combination of a wall bracket, a shoe tree, and an adjustable pivotal connection between the bracket and the tree having its axis extending in a direction at an inclination to the vertical, whereby the tree can be turned about said axis to position either the vamp or counter of the shoe supported by the tree uppermost, substantially as set forth.

G. The combination of a wall bracket, a shoe tree, and an adjustable pivotal connection between the bracket and the tree constructed to permit the tree to be turned about an axis extending at an inclination of about forty-five degrees from the vertical, and having means for locking the tree from movement in ditfierent positions, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name.

HOWARD V. D. WALDRON.

Witnesses KATHARINE MAcHAHoN, \VILLIAM A. S'IAIILIN. 

